Being reminded a lot recently of the childhood job hope of working in a bookshop, so I’m curious what other people would have either as their overall dream bookshop speciality or as their department? Also, people who already work in a bookshop/library, do you have a speciality already?

I would love to have a combo bookshop and craft space with themed patterns or fabric/wool for the books every month. For a speciality, I love the fantasy/scifi so being able to do themed displays for the new releases would be so much fun!

Happy Sunday folks! If you’d like to share, I’d love to hear the following:

5 books you love 4 books on your TBR 3 books you alway recommend 2 recently read 1 currently reading

Here are mine! 5 books I love: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Woodworking by Emily St. James, Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant, and Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin 4 books on my TBR: The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin, Moderation by Elaine Castillo, The Night Ends With Fire by K. X. Song, and Mood Machine by Liz Pelly 3 books I alway recommend: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare, and Shark Heart by Emily Habeck 2 recently read: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 1 currently reading: The Republic of Salt by Ariel Kaplan

Do yall have a favourite word and get really excited when you see it written in a book because most of my kindle highlights are either the word petrichor or iridescent? Petrichor is also my favourite smell in the world 🌧️☀️and iridescent is just a fabulous word 💜💙🩷

What are everyone’s favourite words (in any language) and do feel free to leave the definitions too because we can all learn some new words today ✨

Have a lovely Sunday whatever you’re doing ✨

Hey, so yeah, I am reading a collection of five novellas/novellettes/short stories (I don't know the terminology, but they are around 60 pages). Do you log and review them as separate stories, or finish the entire book and review the wholw thing? Also, if you do it the first way how do you log them so it counts as 5 stories instead of 1? Obviously I am not planning on "cheating" on my book goals, but I have already logged White Nights and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as they were, even though they are 50 and 12 pages respectively. I genuinelly have no idea how to do this🥲

i’m so curious what everyone does while they listen to audiobooks! i usually crochet while listening, but i’d love to know what everyone else does :) do you just listen with your eyes closed or gazing at the wall? (does anyone do that?)

I've gotten a lot of great recommendations on this app but now I want to hear everyone's anti-recommendations. What are books you've read that I definitely should not read? Why are they so terrible? Let me hear all about your most hated books.

What is that one book that every time you see it on your feed or in the wild that you say “I’ve been meaning to read that. I’m going to read that”

Mine is: Circe by Madeline Miller

I want to read it. I talk about reading it. I loved her other book I read (Achilles). I think I even had it in my home but did I read it yet? No. 😩

I’m going to read that book… someday.